Author details: Anne Yvonne Guillou and Silvia Vignato are the Guest Editors of this special
issue. Dr Guillou is an anthropologist and tenured researcher at Centre Asie du Sud-Est
(CASE), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, 190 avenue de France, 75244 Paris
Cedex 13, France. E-mail: anne. guillou@ case. cnrs. fr. Dr Vignato is an anthropologist and
tenured researcher in Dipartimento di Scienze Umane per la Formazione 'Riccardo Massa',
Università di Milano-Bicocca, Piazza dell'Ateneo Nuovo 1, 20126 Milano, Italy. E-mail: silvia …

In the last decades Southeast Asia has experienced civil wars as well as major “natural”
disasters (typhoons, earthquakes, floods and tsunamis). The two volumes Life after
collective death in Southeast-Asia examine the aftermath of such massive collective deaths
in a middle term perspective. We look into how Southeast Asian societies live after
environmental, social and human destruction has happened, what processes they go
through in order to make sense of the disaster and cope with the destruction. On a personal …